Fence-wire twister.



No. 820,909. PATENTED MAY 15, 1906.

H. E. BUSH. FENCE WIRE TWISTER.

APPLIOATION FILED JULY 6,1905.

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HARRY E. BUSH, OF SEATTLE,

ASSIGNMENTS, OF ONE-HALF TO WESTERN PATENT SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, A CORPO- INVESTMENT COMPANY, OF RATION OF WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE RIGHT AND FENCE-WIRE TWISTOER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

latented May 15, 1906.

Application filed July 6,1905. Serial No- 268.390.

T0 ctZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HARRY E. BUsH, a citision of improved means of simple and inexpensive construction whereby pickets may be expeditiously and reliably woven into a fence in a uniform and substantial manner and that, too, by simply giving the operating device a swinging movement.

The invention consists of the novel construction of the details of the invention and the peculiar combination and arrangement thereof, as will be hereinafter described with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure l is a perspective view of an embodiment of my invention shown operatively connected to a fence being constructed therewith, and Fig. 2 is an enlarged side elevation of a portion of the invention shown partly in section.

In said drawings the reference-numeral 1 represents a bar having formed or provided thereon operating-handles 2 and 3, respectively, extending in a vertical and transverse direction. Fixedly secured, as by stud-bolts 4 and nuts 5, to the bar are annular guideframes 6 for the rotary members 7. These members are each provided with a plurality of antifriction-wheels 8, mounted on axles 8, which are ournaled in said members and extend. into grooves 9, provided in the inner peripheral surfaces of said guide-frames. A pair of apertures 10 are providedin each of said members in proximity of its outer edge and are preferably disposed in an arm 7 thereof, which for increased rigidity is protruded into the aforesaid frame-grooves.

Integrally formed on each frame 6 and preferably at its upper end is a laterallyproj ecting arm 11 for the purpose of spacing the pickets in proper position in. the fence to be 5 woven.

In constructing a fence the wires 12 are dis posed in pairs arranged at distances apart equal to the distances between the axes of the said rotary members and are reliably secured to a fence-post, such as 1-3, and thence they are passed through the respective aper tures 10 and severally secured to tension devices 14, connected by strap-wires 15, passing around winding take-up drums 16, as shown, to an adjacent post, as 17. These tension devices may be of any suitable and convenient form, but preferably of the type illustrated in Fig. 1, wherein are a number of posts 18, about which the fence-wires are al.- ternately passed, and thereby affording sufficient obstruction to the drawing of the wires to insure the proper tension.

In practice it is oftentimes advantageous to bring thefence-wire from spools positioned to the left of the said tension devices and secure the ends to the post 13, thus enabling the progress of thework to be continuous and without necessitating the splicing of the ends until all of the wire has been used from the spools.

The wires being passed through the apertures of the rotary member and strung along between the posts, as before mentioned, with tension applied thereto, the wires are simultaneously twisted one or more times by imparting a rotary swinging movement to the bar. A picket is then placed in position be tween the wires and forced into proper alinement and spacing from the post by being pressed equally toward the latter through the contacting of the arms 11 with the picket. The bar is then manipulated, as before explained, to twist the wires and secure the picket being attached, and so on. The wires can be twistedas many times as desirable between any two pickets and in opposite directions in consecutive spaces.

The advantages of the invention will be understood from the foregoing, and it is perfectly adapted for the purposes for which intended.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a device of the class described, the coming into said groove, said arm being provided 10 bination of an operating-bar provided with with a air of apertures in proximity to its handles, annular guide-frames attached to said bar, each frame being formed with an outer e ge.

interiorly-disposed groove, a rotary member In testimony whereof I affix my signature mounted in each guide-frame, each rotary in presence of two witnesses.

member being formed with a plurality of HARRY E. BUSH. arms, antifriction-wheels mounted in the said lVitnesses:

arms and running in said groove, each mem- PIERRE BARNES,

ber being formed also with an arm protrud- W. O. DICE. 

